Samsung Unveils 32 GB Flash Drive

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2006-03-22 08:11pm

Maybe soon we will get rid of normal HDDs altogether.

Less voltage used, faster read and write times and no moving parts. Sign me uup.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2006-03-22 09:15pm

Shiny.

Now I can take work home even easier

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SCRawl · Post by **SCRawl** » 2006-03-22 09:23pm

Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2006-03-22 10:06pm

SCRawl wrote:Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?

Yes, though better implementations spread out read/write operations across the chip and more expensive ones have longer lives.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-03-23 02:11am

Still a bit too expensive to me, but I'm looking forward to seeing prices come down and sizes go up.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2006-03-23 09:52am

phongn wrote:
SCRawl wrote:Don't flash drives have a limited number of read/write operations? Wouldn't that make it prohibitive as a HDD replacement?
Yes, though better implementations spread out read/write operations across the chip and more expensive ones have longer lives.

Somewhat off-topic, but are there any tools out there to determine how many writes a flash-drive has left before it croaks? Something like this could be nifty, but not knowing how much longer you've got until it finally dies due to write limitations would be problematic.